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User Guide • Active Loudspeaker Monitor • User Guide[...]
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E X66 Us er Gu ide » 1 Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of M-Audio’ s EX66 ref erence monitor . Recording engineers and m usic producers ar ound the world r ely on M-Audio r efer ence monitors to ensur e their mix es are accurate. The EX series active monitors from M-Audio impro ve upon that reputation as a top-of-the-line solution [...]
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2 » E X66 Us er Gu ide What’s with the T wo Silver W o ofers? � The EX66 uses a midwoofer -tweeter -midwoofer (MTM) v er tical arra y configuration to pro vide an extraordinarily versatile sound radiation pattern (degrees of ar c for the sound wa ve, vertically and horizontally). Consider the following: conv entional 2-way speak ers in a ster[...]
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E X66 Us er Gu ide » 3 Setting up your E X66 Monitors They’ re onl y speakers, so how hard can it be... right? Depending on your experience with vertical arra y speak ers, it ma y not be that simple. The following section can give you useful information on how to get the best acoustic response out of your EX66 monitoring setup . W a rning - Don?[...]
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4 » E X66 Us er Gu ide Finally , because of the EX66’ s wide horizontal radiation pattern, you do not need to “toe in” the speakers. Having the speak ers point straight, rather than turned in toward the listener , should pro vide the proper ratio of center -fill to soundstage width. Figur e 6 : Straight alignment, no “toe-in”—Correct [...]
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E X66 Us er Gu ide » 5 If you’ re using a digital source with a S/PDIF interface , you can feed it directly into the S/PDIF input � on the back of one of y our EX66 monitors using a high-quality 75 Ω S/PDIF cable. Y ou must set the Input Select switch to either S/PDIF L or S/PDIF R depending on whether that speaker will be r eproducin[...]
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6 » E X66 Us er Gu ide Did Y ou Know?[...]
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E X66 Us er Gu ide » 7 Protection Circuits In order to safeguard your EX66 from accidental damage , we’ ve built in some protection mechanisms. Overload Protection The EX66 can react to two types of electrical issues: “over -current” and “over -voltage. ” In the case of the former , when the system is driven so hard that it appr oaches t[...]
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8 » E X66 Us er Gu ide Appendix - T e chnical Specifications T ype: MTM studio ref erence monitor LF Driver: two 6-inch w oofers HF Driver: 1-inch titanium dome tweeter with wa ve guide Frequency Response: 37Hz to 22kHz, near -field acoustic response, (flatness of ±1dB from 50Hz to 19kHz) Crosso ver : 2.56kHz 4th-order Linkwitz-Rile y maximall[...]
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